New Zealand children's book writer and illustrator
Gavin John Bishop ONZM (born 1946) is an author and illustrator, from Invercargill , New Zealand.[1] He is known for illustrating books from prominent New Zealand authors, including Joy Cowley and Margaret Mahy .[2] [3] Bishop's first published picture book was Mrs McGinty and the Bizarre Plant , published in 1981 by Oxford University Press .
Early life
Bishop was born on 13 February 1946 in Invercargill , to a Tainui and Ngāti Awa family.[4] [5]
Career
Bishop worked as a high school art teacher for thirty years, before writing and illustrating children's books full-time.[1]
In 2006, he accused the makers of the Hollywood film Mr and Mrs Smith of plagiarizing his 1997 school book The Secret Lives of Mr and Mrs Smith .[6]
Select honours and awards
2022 – Margaret Mahy Book of the Year, the Nonfiction and Illustration awards for Atua [7]
2018 – Margaret Mahy Book of the Year Award for Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story at the New Zealand Children's Book Awards [8]
2013 – Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit , for services to Children's Literature.[9]
2013 – Mallinson Rendel Illustrators Award [10]
2013, 2000, 1994, 1983 – New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards , winner of the picture book category.
2010, 2008, 2006, 1982 – LIANZA Russell Clark Medal for Illustration.[11]
2000 – Margaret Mahy Medal for Services to Children's Literature.[12]
1984 – Noma Concours for Picture Book Illustrations , Grand Prize.[13]
Select bibliography
2021 – Atua: Māori gods and heroes , 64pp (Picture Puffin) ISBN 9780143775690 [14]
2020 – Mihi , 18pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 9781776573028 [15]
2018 – Cook's Cook Limited Edition , 40pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 978-1-776572-04-5 [16]
2018 – Cook's Cook , 40pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 978-1-776572-04-5 [17]
2017 – Aotearoa: The New Zealand Story (Penguin )
2017 – Helper and Helper , 128pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 978-1-776571-05-5 [18]
2013 – Mister Whistler , 32pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 9781877467929 [19]
2012 – Koinei te Whare nā Haki i Hanga , 40pp, Māori translation of The House that Jack Built (Gecko Press ) ISBN 9781877467790
2012 – The House that Jack Built , 40pp, (Gecko Press ) ISBN 9781877467615 [20]
2010 – Counting the Stars: Four Maori Myths
2010 – Friends: Snake & Lizard, Joy Cowley, Gecko Press (illustrator)
2010 – Cowshed Christmas (illustrator)
2010 – There Was a Crooked Man
2009 – Piano Rock: A 1950s Childhood
2008 – Rats!
2008 – Snake & Lizard, Gecko Press (illustrator)
2007 – Riding the Waves: four Maori Myths
2006 – Te Waka
2006 – Kiwi Moon
2005 – Taming the Sun: Four Maori Myths
2004 – The Three Billy Goats Gruff
2002 – Tom Thumb
1982 – Mr. Fox , 32pp, (Oxford University Press ) ISBN 0195580893
See also
References
External links
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